Burner.



J. P. REINECKE. BURNER.

APPLICATION FILED Nov. e, 1907.

976,294, Patented Nov'. 22, 1910.

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nnrrnn srafrns rafrnnr l FFlQE JOHN P. REINECKE, F .'PITTSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO PITTSBURG- WATER HEATER COMPANY, OF ALLEGHENY, PENNSYLVANIA, A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

BURNER.

976,294. Specification 0f Lettersatent. PatentedNov. 22, 191.0.

Application filed November 6, 1907. Serial No. 400,918.

To all whom it may concern.'

is expanded at its lower and upper ends as 55 Be it known that I, Jol-1N P. R-ELNEGKE, a indicated in Figure l, 2 is the gas nipple upon citizen of `the United States, residing at Pittswhich the body portion is mounted bvv means burg, in the county of Allegheny and State of the annular ring 3 integral willi such 5 of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new body portion. L is the screen preferably of and useful Ii'nprorernents in Burners, of copper which tits over the obliquely opening 60 which the following is a specification. upper end of thebody portion, Sisian up- The invention relates .to burners and palwardly and forwardly extending cap which ticularly to -the type that is employed in clamps the edges of the screen to the body what are known as instantaneous Vwater portion, and 6 are the bolts for securing the heaters.- The invention has for its primary cap in position. Figures 4 and 5 illustratel 65 object; the provision of a burner which by the burner as supplied with the other form Slight alteration may be used either With f1 of Cap und screening means. The Cap in good quality of gas or a very poor quality. this instance consists of thc casting 7, which i5 One embodiment of the invention is i'llu'sis provided at its rear side with the horizontrated in the accompanying drawlngs, tal slots 8, whereby the rear face' of the cap 70 wherein :k constitutes a grating. The cap is held in Figure 1 is a front elevation of a burner position by means ot' the bolts 6 in precisely equipped with a wire screening member for the same manner that the cap 5 is secured,

use with a good quality of and the openings for the bolts are so posi- Figure 2 is a rear view part-ly broken tioned that when the cap 5 is removed'frorn 75 away, and with the cap removed to show the the body portion l, the cap 7 may be 'substi- .scrcening wire, tuted therefor and secured by the 'saniebolts Figure 3 is a longitudnal section through It will be noted that the burner when supthe burner of Figure l, l plied with the cap 5 as indicated in Figure Figure l is a rear elevation of a burner 3, will 'discharge to the front of the body 80 equipped with a grating, and portion, while this discharge will be to the Figure 5 is a longitudinal section through rear of the body portion when such body the burner of Figure l-. portion is titted with the cap 'T as indicated 150 At the present ti 'ne two general types of in ,Figure 5. ln order that the position of burners are employed, the'iirst of which the tlanie may not be disturbed when one 85 employs a tine screen and is designed for form of cap is substituted for the other, the handling a good quality of gas, and the secbody portion l is mounted upon the gas nipond is equipped with a grating for handling ple 2 in such manner that it may be adjustthe gas and is adapted for where a poor ed about its axis, and in case the cap 5 is quality ot is used. Due to a change of replaced by the cap '7., the body portion 1 is 90 fuel or ignorance as to which form of burner rotated 2180O troni the position of Figure 5. is desirable, it is often necessary to change It will be apparent from the foregoing that the burners from one type to the other at'ter a very small amount oli' labor is necessary to i0 the heater installed, and my new type ot' change the burners from one type to the burner is designed to meet this condition other, and thatiall that is necessary to ei'fect 95 and permit' of a change from one type of this transtornnition is the additional set of burner to the other without the necessity of caps. It is obvious that various modilica removing the burners from their inouutings, tions in the shape or" the caps employed, and

and o v nier-ely changing the position ot the the angles at which they are placed upon body portion slightly and sul'istituting one the body portion of the burner might. be 3.00 'form of cap -for another. The two sets ot' Inude without departing Jfrom the inventive caps employed are furnished with the burner idea involved. ,lho screen d may be of any and the construction is such that it is a small of the well lrnown .types having compara-- .matter to substitute one tor the other when tively small openings, but preferably connoccssary. Sists either of woven wire or perforated 105 Y The burner is shown as equipped with plate. the screen in Figures l, 2 and Referring Having thus described my invention and t0 those figures, l is the bod; portion which illustrated its use, what I claim asnew' and desire tosecure by Letters Patent is the fol! 1. A burner comprising a body portion mounted for rotary adjustment about its axis and having a rearwardly opening top pore tion and a pair of screening constructions either of which may be applied to the opening, the one comprising a screen and a cap for directing the gas to the front of the body portion, and the other vcomprising a cap having a series of closely spaced slots therethrough for directing the gasto the rear of the body portion.

2. In combination in a gas burner, an up'A right admission portion rovided at. its upper end with an expande top portion open-,

JNO. r. REINEGKE.'

Witnesses:

DOERING BELLINGER, J. C. BRADLEY.

ortion and being pro- 

